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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smoss" data-source="post: 6039260" data-attributes="member: 82115">Limiting monsters helped me a lot with my current setting (Sixth Age of Doulairen). I had always seen it as the human age - with the monsters as a dwindling threat (And humans being the real monsters etc, etc).It also meant that I would CONSOLIDATE several monsters. My favorite example is my lizardfolk. They live in the Marsh of Vashim. A warm swamp that sits WAY too close to the arctic to be that warm. It is heated through volcanic vents - AKA sulfur fumeroles.Thus we have stinky lizard people. (Rotten eggs, whew!) - The most local human culture calls them Troglodytes. Hmm...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It is a great exercise to take several related myths and draw them back into being one creature that has spawned all kinds of tales. Even for creatures that are now extinct. The weekly fiction I currently write has the last of one of these races - a race I call the Vodyanoi. But I liberally blended Bullywugs and Kappas into this creature's mythos.Smoss-----------------------Read my weekly fiction <a href="http://blog.thesilvertower.net/" target="_blank">Enzi's Irregulars</a>!Special Halloween story arc ending tomorrow (Oct 31)</blockquote>